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How to Follow Asian Professional Baseball
So how can English speakers follow Asian baseball? There are now numerous ways to track professional baseball in Japan, Korea, and Taiwan even if you don’t read the native languages. Let’s look at each country in turn.
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How baseball helped shape Japanese migrants’ experiences during the White Australia policy
SABR member Ray Nickson work on early Japanese baseball in Australia is featured on the website The Conversation. https://theconversation.com/how-baseball-helped-shape-japanese-migrants-experiences-during-the-white-australia-policy-270054?utm_medium=article_clipboard_share&utm_source=theconversation.com&fbclid=IwY2xjawPCDxZleHRuA2FlbQIxMQBzcnRjBmFwcF9pZBAyMjIwMzkxNzg4MjAwODkyAAEeqkZf1iWEDmXcg8EgfSutogu9jru9R95JyIR20MsnnYEU4Ous-3srzC2N0uk_aem_8GbcdoQEwxjSikyRbfjwug
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The Greatest Piece of Diplomacy Ever: The 1949 Tour of Lefty O’Doul and the San Francisco Seals
Every Tuesday morning we will post an article from SABR’s award-winning books Nichibei Yakyu: Volumes I and II. Each will present a different chapter in the long history of US-Japan baseball relations. This week Dennis Snelling focuses on one of the most important pieces of baseball diplomacy in history: the 1949 San Francisco Seals tour of Japan
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Women’s Baseball in Korea
This list pulls together some of the leading organizations connected to women’s baseball in Korea as a basic reference point. It’s meant for people who are curious about how women’s baseball is organized, where events and national teams are managed, and which institutions are involved, particularly readers outside Korea who may not be familiar with…
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Is Taiwan Arming Youth Ballplayers with AI?
The story of a Little League champion turned tech czar offers insights by Jerry Chen Originally published on The Taipei Gun, December 17, 2025 For a country widely known for its dominance in semiconductor manufacturing, Taiwan is actually quite behind in the integration of technology in baseball.1 So, no, while we are seeing “AI-powered” baseball camps and other innovations in…
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The 1935 Wheaties All-Americans: A Boxful of Global Ambition
by Keith Spalding Robbins Every Tuesday morning we will post an article from SABR’s award-winning books Nichibei Yakyu: Volumes I and II. Each will present a different chapter in the long history of US-Japan baseball relations. This week Keith Spalding Robbins examines a little-known amateur tour from 1935. “Last year in the Guide it was the pleasure…
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The Light and Shadow of the Kiwoom Heroes, Called the MLB Academy
Kiwoom Heroes are a club with a unique character within the KBO League. In their history, they are the only self-sustaining team in the KBO without a parent corporation. Even so, they have produced as many as five Major League players in a short span of time. This article introduces Kiwoom Heroes and tells the stories…
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Murder, Espionage, and Baseball: The 1934 All-American Tour of Japan
by Robert K. Fitts Every Tuesday morning we will post an article from SABR’s award-winning books Nichibei Yakyu: Volumes I and II. Each will present a different chapter in the long history of US-Japan baseball relations. This week Rob Fitts writes about Babe Ruth and the ALL Americans’ 1934 visit to Japan. Katsusuke Nagasaki’s breath billowed as…
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The School in Korea That Has Produced the Most MLB Players: The History of Gwangju Ilgo
by Taein Chun Gwangju Jeil High School, known as Gwangju Ilgo, is located in Gwangju Metropolitan City in the southwestern region of Korea and is the school that has produced the greatest number of Major League Baseball players in the country. In the early 2000s, Jae Weong[c1] Seo of the New York Mets and Los Angeles Dodgers,…
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Herb Hunter’s Dream Tour: A Rabbit, Two Leftys, and an Iron Horse Visit a Dangerous Japan in 1931
by Dennis Snelling Every Tuesday morning we will post an article from SABR’s award-winning books Nichibei Yakyu: Volumes I and II. Each will present a different chapter in the long history of US-Japan baseball relations. This week Dennis Snelling tells us about the 1931 Major League tour of Japan. It was a tour initially framed by…
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